Julio Jiménez Rueda

Julio Jiménez Rueda (April 10, 1896 – June 25, 1960) was a Mexican lawyer, writer, playwright and diplomat.

Biography Jiménez Rueda studied at the Escuela Nacional Preparatoria, and graduated in law at the Universidad Nacional de México (later UNAM) in 1919. Later on, he was appointed as the director of the Escuela Nacional de Arte Teatral of UNAM. He completed a doctoral degree of philosophy and literature in 1935. As a diplomat, he served in Montevideo in 1920, and afterwards in Buenos Aires until 1922. Back in Mexico he was the director of the General Archive of the Nation, and later president of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. In 1923 he promoted the creation of the Municipal Theater, fostered the creation of the Unión de Autores Dramáticos (Dramatic Writers' Union), and participated in the Teatro Ulises movement. He became a corresponding member of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua on August 7, 1935, and of the Academia Mexicana de la Historia in 1954. He directed the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the UNAM, where he taught Spanish literature for many years. He also was co-founder of the Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana (IILI).

Works Cuentos y diálogos, 1918 Sor Adoración del Divino Verbo, 1923 Lo que ella no pudo prever, 1923 Moisn. Historia de judaizantes e inquisidores, 1924 La silueta de humo, 1928 Resúmenes de literatura mexicana (essay), 1928 Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (essay), 1934 La desventura del Conde Kadski, 1935 Vidas reales que parecen imaginarias Don Pedro Moya de Contreras, primer inquisidor de México (essay), 1944 Herejías y supersticiones de la Nueva España (essay),1946 Novelas coloniales, 1947 El humanismo, el barroco y la contrarreforma en el México virreinal, 1951 El doctor Francisco Castillo Nájera, 1954 Historia de la cultura en México, el mundo prehispánico, 1957 Literatura mexicana del siglo XIX